They are a small group of researchers to meet in the storage room of the Palais Garnier. Their goal? Explore the secrets of the André Jean-Jacques Deshayes collection which brings together ballet archives from the beginning of the 20th century, kept in the library-museum of the Paris Opera. Archives that look like drawings. Figurative or abstract.
“For
Flore et Zéphire
, the first ballet on pointes which prefigures the romantic ballet, Didelot posed twenty dancers among the cardboard clouds which represent paradise. The Opera has just adopted the technique of harnesses, which allows the dancers to take off towards the sky, like the angels of an animated painting ”
, says Pauline Chevalier, researcher in art history, specializing in the drawing of dance.
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“Dance is transmitted above all through gesture, orality, and is created in the studio with the dancers. But it turns out that in the history of dance, we have many ballet masters, choreographers, who have left archives,
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